DOTS – The Impact Summit | 10-11 December 2020|Virtual
Join the first online Global Innovation Gathering DOTS – our annual convention of innovators from around the world will be taking place in the Internet on December 10th and 11th 2020. We look forward to connecting you with hubs, makers, and innovators who will be sharing their work experiences and ideas on how to navigate the Corona-Crisis and support local communities with open technologies. DOTS brings together people interested in impact driven innovation, emancipatory technology, open source, and maker culture. We will be hosting workshops, meetups, panels as well as sharing music, movement and making sure we stay connected.
DOTS Day 1 – December 10th
Morning Pilates, Yoga and Hangout
Stretch yourself!
Hosted by Fadia Elgharib
Opening session: Welcome to DOTS!
A warm welcoming session with videos and sparkles.
Hosted by Geraldine de Bastion
Innovation Hubs in Crisis Response Mode
Innovation hubs and tech communities across the world have reacted to the Covid-19 Pandemic by providing different forms of support to local communties. In this session GIG members will share their experiences in crises response for instance in switching to the production of PPE in their makerspaces as well as sharing experiences of what it is like to apapt to lockdown. Hubs will share how they are supporting different kinds of communities – from indiginous minorities, to school children children – throguh their work. What were the biggest challenges, how did they manage to keep their communities engaged and which of the activities they did will they keep post-Covid? These are some of the questions we will be addressing in the discssion following short presentations by the speakers.
Speakers:
Gabriela Agustini, Saad Chinoy, Obasegun Ayodele, Ricardo Ruiz Freire, Jaiksana Soro
Public Day Closing session
A quick retrospective of the day, a brief on the next day.
Hosted by Geraldine de Bastion
#MMN Meetup: r0g_agency Migrant Media Network initiative
Join the Migrant Media Network #MMN from Ghana to discuss about safe alternatives to irregular migration. #MMN provides reliable information and training on migration issues to make informed decisions and be aware of safer migration options, for example, to Europe. As alternatives to migration, #MMN is promoting youth entrepreneurship as a way to build economic and social resilience within their home communities.
Hosted by:
Thomas Kalunge
Speakers:
Benedictus, Peter, Rhoda and Linda Bonyo
Infrastructures for agile and resilient documentation
This session will start with a presentation on ideas and practices used in Colombia and Cuba for agile and resilient documenation. Following the preesntation, the participants can join in a hands on collective agile writing workshop using docutopia and Fossil along some command line nerdiness. Prerequisites would be a happiness, open heart, and a computer runnin Windows 10 or later, Gnu/Linux or Mac. You will feel anxious to install some softwares during the workshop, so fell free to do so. The main idea is to explore infrastructures to support connection, community projects and activities awareness, building local resilience for future connections and remote work methodologies, providing solutions to infrastructural problems that avoid fair access and education in remote areas.
Hosted by:
Offray Luna, Eloisa Montt
GIG Open Science Meetup
Join our Meetup on Open Science! At the start of the Meetup different members of the Open Science and Citizen Sciene communities will present their current work and projects. Following the short presentations, we will discuss how to connect conversations on open science between the natural and the social science communities, how to exchange methodologies and support eachothers work.
Hosted by:
Ana Sandres, Dr. Khadidiatou Sall, Thomas Herve, Kersti Ruth Wissenbach, Harry Akligoh and Obasegun Ayodele
DOTS Day 2 – December 11th
Opening session: Welcome to DOTS Day 2!
A warm welcoming session with videos and sparkles.
Hosted by Geraldine de Bastion
Emancipatory Technology
Can technologies be emancipatory? If yes, from what oppressions do they act emancipatory? In this panel, three experts – Chinmayi S K (The Bachchao Project in India), Georgia Nicolau (Procomum Institute in Brazil) and Linda Bonyo (Lawyers Hub in Kenya) will share how they are addressing these issues through their work and discuss about the emancipatory potential of technologies. By sharing their experiences from different continents, they highlight the diverse fights that have to be fought for, e.g. decolonialism, legal justice, diversity, and give insights into the multiple functions of technology as being emancipatory, oppressive or both. The panel is moderated by social scientist Alev Coban (Goethe-University Frankfurt; Center of Emancipatory Technology Studies).
Hosted by Alev Coban
Speakers:
Linda Bonyo, Georgia Nicolau, Chinmayi SK
Global Open Source Health Care: How can you support the Community around your Hub with Careables
The last three years, the Global Innovation Network has been building a global network for open health solutions Careables.org and creating new devices with maker communities around the world. In this presentation you’ll learn more about Careables, about what GIG hubs contributed to the project and how the approach helped to be effective in the Covid-19 maker response. We’ll showcase what we have achieved so far and highlight how you and your hub or maker community can use the tools we collected and created to initiate assistive tech programmes that value co-creation and sharing. We invite you to join the global initiative to make health and improve the life of people in your local community.
Speakers:
Fadia Elgharib, Georgia Nicolau, Ricardo Ruiz Freire
GIG Education Meet-up
This is a Meetup for everyone working on the intersection of education, digital innovation and maker culture At the start of the Meetup different members of the GIG network will present their current work and projects. Following the short presentations, we will invite all participants to join in an open networking and sharing session
Hosted by:
Rosanna Lopez, Melanie Stilz, Rodrigo Pitanga and Twahir Hussein Kassim
Data Narratives
This session will share latin america stories and studies about citizen generated data in brazilian favelas (especially in the pandemic context). Gilberto Vieira is co-founder of data_labe, a data jornalism lab in Maré, one of the biggest brazilian favelas. The lab is composed of young people from the peripheries of Rio de Janeiro, who believe in narratives produced through data. Gil will share insights into how he is aiming to create new possibilites for the people who inhabit cities to shape their development through emancipatory data approaches.
Hosted by:
Gilberto Vieira
Mindfulness and Teamwork
Building trust amongst team members can be cultivated in a number of ways. Compassion and perspective taking meditation practices build skills that allow us to maintain a trusting mindset even in the face of challenges. Develop your Mindfulness strategy to help create a more productive and effective team environment.
Hosted by
Yatan Blumenthal Vargas, Theresa Fend, Bilal Ghalib
DOTS Closing Session
A quick retrospective of the day, a brief on the next year.
Hosted by Geraldine de Bastion
